Congress has released the first list for the upcoming Haryana assembly elections on Friday. The names of 31 candidates have been announced in the list. Vinesh Phogat has been made a candidate from Julana assembly seat of Haryana, while former Chief Minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda will contest from Garhi Sampla-Kiloi seat. The first list has been released after the meeting of the Central Election Committee of Congress on Friday evening.
Voting will be held on all 90 seats of the state in a single phase on October 5, while the results will be announced on October 8. Before Congress, BJP has also released its first list of 67 candidates in Haryana. That list included the names of many bigwigs including Chief Minister Naib Singh Saini, Anil Vij.
The list of 31 Congress candidates includes Pradeep Chaudhary from Kalka, Shaili Chaudhary from Narayangarh, Meva Singh from Ladwa, Ram Karan from Shahabad. Surendra Panwar from Sonipat assembly seat, Jagbir Singh Malik from Gohna, Induraj Singh Narwal from Baroda have been given tickets. The party has fielded Bharat Bhushan Batra from Rohtak, Rajinder Singh June from Bahadurgarh, Kuldeep Vats from Badli.
Apart from this, Geeta Bhukkal from Jhajjar, Raghuvir Singh Kadian from Beri, Rao Dan Singh from Mahendragarh, Chiranjiv Rao from Rewari have been made candidates by the Congress. Aftab Ahmed from Nuh seat, Maman Khan from Ferozepur Jhirka seat, Udaybhan from Hodal seat have been given tickets. At the same time, Neeraj Sharma from Faridabad NIT will contest the Haryana elections on a Congress ticket.
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Senior leaders attended the Central Election Committee meeting
The Congress Central Election Committee (CEC) met on Friday to finalize the names of party candidates for the upcoming Haryana assembly elections. After this, the first list was released late night. The meeting was attended by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Sonia Gandhi, party general secretary and organization in-charge KC Venugopal and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda, among others. Out of the 90 assembly seats in Haryana, the CEC has approved the names of candidates for 66. However, the party has announced the names of only 31 candidates right now. The names of candidates for the remaining 24 seats are being discussed by a sub-committee, which includes All India Congress Committee (AICC) Haryana in-charge Deepak Babaria, TS Singhdev and Ajay Maken.
Hooda faction against alliance with AAP
The Congress is also in talks with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on seat sharing for the Haryana assembly elections and tough bargaining is going on from both sides. The Congress has been engaged in intense deliberations for the last few days to explore the possibility of an alliance with the AAP for the Haryana elections, although some of its leaders have objected to the alliance with the Arvind Kejriwal-led party. Sources said that the Hooda faction and some other leaders are against seat sharing with the AAP. According to these leaders, Kejriwal’s party does not have any special base in Haryana.
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